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Examines novel and emerging applications of data science and sister disciplines in gaining insights from data to inform interventions into the learners' journey and interactions with an academic or training institution. Topics focus on building models of learners for success, using data to inform courseware and assessmentware development.

Illustrates the current challenges students and staff are facing in Higher Education Institutions (HEI) due to inequalities related to diversity issues as well as the support provided to them. The book includes research papers exploring how managers, leaders, and educators can resolve diversity issues in HEI.

The objective of this book is to present to the educational and scientific community the most significant advances in relation to gambling and especially motor play in childhood. Topics, research, systematic bibliographic reviews, and didactic proposals are addressed that relate the different types of games and social relationships.

Offers new pre-health professional advisors, as well as more seasoned advisors and other administrators, a resource to assist them in their professional journey (regardless of their prior training or lack of available mentorship) and to ensure that all students who wish to pursue health careers are well-prepared to do so.

A reference for a wide number of stakeholders interested in the importance of economic, social and environmental development in sustainable development. New contributions, especially theoretical, practical and managerial, are discussed.

Provides insights in the field of multilingualism and multilingual education based on conceptual and empirical studies that will provide evidence in support of sustainable multilingualism in higher education.

Focuses on providing in-depth information and background regarding the growing group of children and families impacted by incarceration. The book aims to help all groups: counsellors, social workers, educators, community advocates, public figures, and social justice advocates.

Helps readers to anticipate separate, yet interrelated functional spheres of global socioeconomic reality, understand their structure, and recognise potential vulnerabilities and opportunities in light of the current pandemic and the induced transformations.

Covers a linear history of philosophy, concentrating on 'reciprocity-in-kind', especially the factors and policies behind the 'study agendas' secret philosophies before and after the European powers or the colonial period.

Evaluates the economic and social impacts of new challenging issues in public economics, such as global warming and the global pandemic. The book is aimed at social science scholars, government officials, policy makers and businessmen focused on environmental policies, and more.

Outlines recent developments in the field of computational biomechanics. The book presents a series of computational techniques that are the backbone of the field that includes finite element analysis, multi-scale modelling, fluid-solid interaction, mesh-less techniques and topological optimization.

Provides guidance to overcome the existing accessibility gap in higher education. The book advocates for transparent education by presenting chapters consisting of in-depth, comprehensive information for academics, faculty developers, administrators, and instructional designers.

Highlights not only big data, but also big information, big knowledge, and big wisdom for intelligent business and decision making. The book also dives into intelligent business analytics to understand consumers in the digital age, and business analytics as an emerging paradigm under the increasing complexity of businesses and business processes.

Provides a substantial critique on post-modernism theories in the area for valid interpretations and analyses of the phenomena of disease response and pathological behavior. The book studies the shifts in modern social values and illness behaviour in contemporary society, especially under COVID-19.

Solutions to challenges of fragmentation presented by thousands of devices from different manufacturers operating on proprietary ecosystems are likely to be warmly embraced by many IoT brands developers. As such, a publication that specifically addresses the challenges faced in the rolling out of IoT technologies is sorely needed.

Explores various antenna design concepts to meet the NB-IoT requirements and to integrate with small IoT devices. The book also covers antenna test and measurement techniques and case studies to understand the real time applications of antenna in NB-IoT applications.

Analyses the most proper governance model to be implemented to increase the competitiveness of tourist destinations. The book also focuses on the need to develop a managerial orientation capable of making the tourism system interact with tourism demand.

Introduces the use of artificial intelligence and big data analytics techniques which can apply opinion mining and text analytics on literary works and social media. This book focuses on theories, methods and approaches in which data analytic techniques are used to analyse data from social media, literary books, novels, news, texts, and more.

Examines the impact of COVID-19 on higher education institutions internally and externally and considers the lessons learned as well as what could be next. The book also presents solutions to the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic wrought on universities and colleges and looks toward using those solutions for future applications.

Brings together research-based chapters and case studies on systems security techniques and current methods to identify and overcome technological vulnerabilities, emphasizing security issues in developing nations. The book focuses on a range of topics, including data privacy and security issues.

Explores the stories of students with disabilities as they trace their journey from the PK-12 setting into university and adult life and addresses aspects that any new teacher must know in order to meet the needs of today's PK-12 classrooms.

Presents recent advances in the lightweight mat materials processing, manufacturing, and characterization. The book identifies the need for modern tools and techniques for designing lightweight materials and addresses multidisciplinary approaches for applying their use.

Provides insights and understanding on how companies and organisations are using advances in IT to adapt to global pandemics such as COVID-19. The book explores how everything from data mining to cloud computing is used for strategic purposes, including competitive advantage and decision making relating to global pandemics.

Offers a comprehensive overview of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from a business and economics perspective. The book provides theoretical and empirical analysis of the opportunities and challenges facing multinational enterprises and their foreign direct investment activities abroad in relation to BRI.

Focuses on the intersections of wellness and leadership within the higher education context. Leadership wellness is generally under researched. This book is the first to explicitly explore wellness in higher education from the leadership context.

Presents research, strategies, best practices, and meaningful insights dealing with important issues related to multicultural and global education. Coverage includes the existing knowledge on challenges currently being faced, and possible solutions and strategies that exist in multicultural and global education environments.

Explores the lived experiences of Black women diversity practitioners at historically white higher education, healthcare, and corporate institutions before, during, and after the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and the racial reckoning of 2020.

Workplace trends show that the flexibility and adaptability demonstrated during this pandemic may prove to offer organizations new insights into employee recruitment, retention, and production. The strategies in best practices shared in this book are universal in making employees feel valued; a key factor in both employee recruitment and retention.

Focuses on the post-pandemic changes in the functions of social policy and public administration as well as cyber developments, cyber threats, and the effects of cyberwar on public administration. In addition, the book discusses changes in social policy functions and practices in the cyber cosmos.